Abstract

This paper intends to investigate the interplay of text and image in contemporary
forms of travel literature: modern travelogues and travel guides. Attention will
mainly be given to on-line guides as well as websites for tourism purposes, such
as city portals.
The effects of intermediality on the configuration of tourist destinations in
modern tourist guides and in particular in the new media will be discussed with
the use of different examples such as the city of Hamburg: narrative descriptions
from the 18th Century will be compared to websites of today, in order to study the
specific transformations affecting language, layout, etc. The paper will also put
forward several didactic recommendations which can be useful in teaching German
as a foreign language.

This paper intends to investigate the interplay of text and image in contemporary
forms of travel literature: modern travelogues and travel guides. Attention will
mainly be given to on-line guides as well as websites for tourism purposes, such
as city portals.
The effects of intermediality on the configuration of tourist destinations in
modern tourist guides and in particular in the new media will be discussed with
the use of different examples such as the city of Hamburg: narrative descriptions
from the 18th Century will be compared to websites of today, in order to study the
specific transformations affecting language, layout, etc. The paper will also put
forward several didactic recommendations which can be useful in teaching German
as a foreign language.